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🚨The DMV Saves Lives

It’s true. The DMV Compliance Division — which does traffic stops, tracks stolen cars, and stuff like that — rescued a young woman who was trying to escape a speeding car. It ended with a high-speed chase in the desert near Searchlight. [KVVU]

• A victim is expected to survive a shooting that shut down Interstate 15 for more than two hours. [KLAS]

🎰 Vegas Tourism, Returning to Form

Las Vegas tourism volume is nearly back to pre-pandemic levels, although overseas visitors continue to lag, especially from Asian countries. [Nevada Current]

• Two riverside casino towns, meanwhile, are struggling. The dropoff in visitors has been slow and steady in Mesquite, but Laughlin is down dramatically from its peak of 4.8 million people in 1994. The town saw 1.3 million visitors in 2023 as room occupancy barely cracked 50%. [Las Vegas Review-Journal]
• We think Laughlin is pretty awesome 👍 [City Cast Las Vegas 🎧]

🧮 Reading, Writing … ‘Rithmetic?

The Clark County School District — also known as the people in charge of making sure students learn math — miscalculated at-risk student allocations and teacher pay, making an already troubled budget deficit even worse. [Las Vegas Sun]

🗳️ Land of Confusion

The election is 12 days away 😬 By now, you’ve (probably) decided on which candidates you support, but the ballot questions — well, those aren’t so simple. Read our quick and easy guide to the 2024 ballot questions to get up to speed. Then listen to City Cast Las Vegas as co-host Sarah Lohman and the Nevada Current’s April Corbin Girnus sort through the complicated language, exploring the pros and cons of each proposal. These issues are in your hands as a Nevada voter 🫵